From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile first saw this celestial wanderer on July 1, 2025. It is ...

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ESA's advanced XMM-Newton telescope discovered a faint X-ray glow from the 3I/ATLAS comet. What is this mysterious light it ...

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

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American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...